Word: ovum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Novum Ovum...
...legal abortion [Dec. 25]: When are we going to face the fact that human beings can no longer breed at the same level as animals? People should not be forced to become parents because of a blind biological collision between sperm and ovum, but should be free to choose whether or not they will undertake the obligations of parenthood...
There are, in fact, two such drugs now under investigation by U.S. fertility researchers. Both are scarce and forbiddingly expensive. But both are of great interest to the small percentage of women who are infertile because they do not ovulate - whose ovaries do not release an ovum, ready for fertilization, once every month, as do the ovaries of normal women...
...with Duchenne dystrophy may have astronomically high levels, sometimes up to 1,000 units. Dr. Emery and his fellow workers at the Hopkins decided to check the creatine kinase level in mothers of normal boys, mothers of a single dystrophic boy (who might have produced a nonrecurring defective ovum and who might not be carriers) and mothers of two or more dystrophic boys who almost certainly would be carriers...
Suspicious Uncles. For a woman whose fertilized ovum has suffered a one-time mutation and who is not a carrier, the creatine kinase test is no predictor. Her level is that of a normal woman. But in many women who are carriers, the level can go as high as 40 units per liter. A woman who has had one dystrophic child or relative should have her creatine kinase level measured by means of a blood test, said Dr. Emery. Any woman who knows that a brother or an uncle or a great-uncle has died of the disease should likewise...